Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH, was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He also founded the Black Star Line, a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands...
NationalityJamaican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth17 August 1887
CitySaint Ann's Bay, Jamaica
CountryJamaica
Marcus Garvey quotes about
At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.
Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.
The greatest possesion of man is character
I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities,
The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.
The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world